Boat under the Moon

early 19th century

Not on view

A turbulent sea, a rocky foreground, and layers of fin-shaped mountains receding into the background are the principal pictorial elements of this painting. A boatman poles his vessel past the dangerous current and foreground rocks. Roshū, student and adopted son of the renowned and individualistic artist Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754–1799), whose works are exhibited nearby, demonstrates his skill with the brush as well as a sense of drama, perhaps encouraged by his untrammeled teacher. Roshū was an artist in the refined Maruyama-Shijō tradition, to which his adoptive father had initially belonged but later renounced; this painting contains only hints of Rosetsu’s vigorous and dynamic mature style.

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長澤蘆州筆　月下遊舟図
Title: Boat under the Moon
Artist: Nagasawa Roshū 長澤蘆洲 (Japanese, 1767–1847)
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Date: early 19th century
Culture: Japan
Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions: Image: 41 1/4 × 16 9/16 in. (104.8 × 42.1 cm)
Overall with mounting: 75 3/16 × 21 1/8 in. (191 × 53.7 cm)
Overall with knobs: 75 3/16 × 23 1/16 in. (191 × 58.6 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2019
Object Number: 2019.420.32
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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